generally technology isn't a very heavily regulated industry anyway. and they don't really pay a very high dividend. >> the question is, are we going to continue to see an end of year selloff as investors try to lock in profits when tax rates are lower versus next year when they, of course, will go up. but how high will they go up on the dividend-payers. >> sure. you're right. right now, you know, president obama's proposal would be to have dividends taxed at ordinary income. that would be substantially higher tax rate than the 15% tax rate that investors are enjoying right now. and, you know, either way, we do think that dividend yields will ultimately get dinged. as you mention, they have gotten hit, they were down something like 3% in the weekended right before the election. so even in anticipation of that. you know, it's hard to know. i mean, remember, a lot of dividends stocks are held in tax-exempt accounts anyway. 401(k)s, endowments, pensions. so we're dealing with a subset here. so my sense is we're not going to see a full pullback, because, a